Armies of Pestilence: The Impact of Disease on HistoryJames Clarke & Company Limited, 15. juni 2004 - 276 sider "We have lived in a world that had, until the arrival in 2020 of the coronavirus Covid-19, not suffered a serious pandemic for a century, and society had almost forgotten the enormous impact created by highly infectious diseases. Infectious diseases, however, played major roles in ending the Golden Age of Athens, wrecked Justinian's plans to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, and killed untold millions in Latin America after the Spanish invasion. Armies of Pestilence explores the impact of these diseases on history. Despite their importance, historians have tended to minimise the role of infectious disease - partly because of a lack of scientific knowledge, and this has resulted in a distorted view both of the past and of the danger of disease to modern society. In Armies of Pestilence, R.S. Bray, a distinguished biologist who here shows himself also to be an able historian, corrects this view. The book surveys the principal epidemics around the world and across the centuries, in each case discussing the origins of the outbreaks, the symptoms, the mortality rate and the social and economic effect. Where particular diseases cannot be identified with certainty the best scholarly opinions are discussed. Bray pays special attention to the infamous Yersina pestis, the organism that caused the Black Death. Other diseases discussed include malaria, smallpox, typhus, cholera and influenza, and AIDS. One of the themes of the book is the relationship between disease and war, with the former often causing more deaths than the latter, as was the case with the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19, at the end of the First World War. The inability of governments to deal effectively with disease is also made clear." |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 53
Side 11
... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire When the Roman Empire and its fate are mentioned the name of Gibbon inevitably arises and Gibbon was no friend to any overemphasis on disease as a contributory factor in the fall of the Roman Empire ...
... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire When the Roman Empire and its fate are mentioned the name of Gibbon inevitably arises and Gibbon was no friend to any overemphasis on disease as a contributory factor in the fall of the Roman Empire ...
Side 12
... decline of his beloved Antonine rule . He makes note of the Antonine plague , the Aurelian plague and the role of disease in the barbarian incursions but gives them no special importance . The major stumbling block to any consideration ...
... decline of his beloved Antonine rule . He makes note of the Antonine plague , the Aurelian plague and the role of disease in the barbarian incursions but gives them no special importance . The major stumbling block to any consideration ...
Side 13
... decline of the Western Roman Empire . In his Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire Boak advances the view that the decline commenced in the mid - second - century and certainly by 193. In this he has Grant's ( 1968 ) ...
... decline of the Western Roman Empire . In his Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire Boak advances the view that the decline commenced in the mid - second - century and certainly by 193. In this he has Grant's ( 1968 ) ...
Side 14
... decline . He is meticulous in stating his belief that there was no one single major cause for the check and decline . To my mind , however , the timing gives disease a position of great importance . If disease directly is not to be held ...
... decline . He is meticulous in stating his belief that there was no one single major cause for the check and decline . To my mind , however , the timing gives disease a position of great importance . If disease directly is not to be held ...
Side 15
... decline . Gilliam's 2 % death rate is an underestimate even on his own evidence . Gilliam accepts that the decline of the Roman Empire was under way by the death of Marcus Aurelius , but notes that : even if one agrees that depopulation ...
... decline . Gilliam's 2 % death rate is an underestimate even on his own evidence . Gilliam accepts that the decline of the Roman Empire was under way by the death of Marcus Aurelius , but notes that : even if one agrees that depopulation ...
Innhold
1 | |
11 | |
19 | |
28 | |
35 | |
CHAPTER 6 The Black Death part 1 | 48 |
CHAPTER 7 The Black Death part 2 | 57 |
CHAPTER 8 The Black Death part 3 | 68 |
CHAPTER 16 Smallpox part 3 | 129 |
CHAPTER 17 Typhus part 1 | 135 |
CHAPTER 18 lYpbus part 2 | 144 |
CHAPTER 19 Cholera part 1 | 154 |
CHAPTER 20 Cholera part 2 | 167 |
CHAPTER 21 Cholera part 3 | 174 |
CHAPTER 22 Cholera part 4 | 187 |
CHAPTER 23 Influenza part 1 | 193 |
CHAPTER 9 Plague The Bombay Plague | 81 |
CHAPTER 10 Malaria part 1 | 89 |
CHAPTER 11 Malaria part 2 | 96 |
CHAPTER 12 Malaria part 3 | 101 |
CHAPTER 13 Yellow Fever | 107 |
CHAPTER 14 Smallpox part 1 | 114 |
CHAPTER 15 Smallpox part 2 | 123 |
CHAPTER 24 Influenza part 2 | 202 |
CHAPTER NOTES | 212 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 237 |
Back Cover | 261 |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
according Africa America appear areas army attack became become believes Black Death body Britain brought bubonic carried cause centuries CHAPTER China cholera claimed consequent continued dead decline demographic despite died disease doubt dysentery early East effect Empire England epidemic Europe evidence fact famine figures finds flea France French Germany give half human immunity important increase India infected influenza Italy killed known land later less London loss lost major malaria Middle million moved nature notes occurred organism outbreak pandemic parasite period Persian pestis places plague pneumonic poor population possible present probably reached reason records River Roman Rome seems severe sick smallpox spread suffered thought took transmitted typhus usually vaccine virus West whole yellow fever York